Fervo Energy Starts Selling Power From Cape Station Ahead Of Schedule
Fervo Energy has started commercial electricity sales from the first section of its Cape Station geothermal project in Utah, one day ahead of its contractual deadline. The first GeoBlock reached…
OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Information Sharing
OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information outside established procedures. The researchers allegedly shared confidential information…
Graphite Study Finds Thousands Of Persistent Writing Tells Across Leading AI Models
Graphite researchers have found that leading AI models still produce thousands of recurring words, phrases, and sentence patterns at substantially higher rates than human writers, even as familiar signals such…
MyMonthlyCar Connects Dealerships With Drivers For Month-To-Month Used Car Rentals
MyMonthlyCar is building an online marketplace that lets dealerships rent their used vehicles to drivers on a month-to-month basis. The Florida-based startup aims to give dealers another way to use…
Tesla’s ‘Amazing Abundance’ Vision Still Lacks Detail More Than A Year After Master Plan IV
More than a year after Tesla published its fourth Master Plan, CEO Elon Musk continues to describe a future of “amazing abundance” driven by AI, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, and…
Airbnb Adds AI Search As Brian Chesky Questions Chatbot-Only Travel Interfaces
Airbnb has introduced AI-powered search as part of its fall product update, while CEO Brian Chesky says chatbot-only interfaces still do not work well for travel discovery. The company is…
Satlyt Raises $8 Million to Build a Shared Computing Layer for Satellites
Satlyt has raised an $8 million seed round to develop software that lets satellites run AI models and eventually share computing workloads across orbit. Rather than building spacecraft, the startup…
Factory CEO Accuses Board Adviser of Sharing Information With Rival Cognition
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg has accused former board adviser Chris Degnan of sharing confidential information with rival AI coding company Cognition while advising Factory. Degnan denies the allegation and says…
Pentagon Data Breach Exposes Personal Records of More Than 3 Million People
More than 3 million current and former US military personnel, civilian workers, and others had personal information exposed in a months-long breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center, including Social…
DoorDash Unveils Six-Propeller Drone for DoorDash Air Delivery Service
DoorDash has unveiled a six-propeller autonomous aircraft for DoorDash Air, its in-house drone delivery service, after first developing the ground systems needed to move food from restaurant kitchens to customers.…
BMW’s New Electric i3 Costs $4,400 Less Than Comparable Gas-Powered 3 Series
BMW’s 2027 3 Series offers a rare direct comparison between electric and gasoline-powered cars, with the electric version priced $4,400 below its closest gas equivalent. The electric i3 50 xDrive…
Meta Disputes Claim That Muse Read Private Messages Without Permission
Meta has disputed a journalist’s claim that its Muse AI agent accessed private Apple Messages without permission, saying the integration requires users to explicitly enable multiple system and application-level controls.…
DoorDash Launches AI Agent That Lets Users Order Food Through Apple Messages
DoorDash is launching an AI-powered ordering agent that lets users find food, build a cart, and place orders through Apple Messages without navigating the DoorDash app. The system can understand…
Destro Emerges From Stealth With $8 Million to Coordinate Warehouse Robots and Workers
Destro has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding for software that coordinates robots, workers, carts, and trucks inside logistics facilities rather than building robots itself. The round…
Instinct Adds Curated Product Recommendations as Users Question Unsolicited Suggestions
AI assistant startup Instinct has introduced Instinct Selections, a recommendation feature that suggests restaurants, travel ideas, and shopping products using lists curated by people such as chefs, designers, architects, and…
Texas Farmers Turn to Solar Leases as Rising Power Demand Reshapes Rural Land
Texas farmers are increasingly leasing agricultural land to solar developers, providing some families with long-term income as drought, extreme weather, and rising farming costs put pressure on their operations. The…